So many opinions? Must be something here!

Rating: 8/10 (7 July 2003)

It's very interesting to see the huge range of comments people have written for this - hating it for not being "scary" enough, loving it for being thought-provoking, etc. I can't help but wonder what the "not scary enough" people were expecting? I have to speculate that they are all male, since events in the latter part of the film are certainly scary enough (in a "real-life" way, rather than a "eaten by zombies" way) to creep any female.
The premise has already been described to death, but I have to wonder - in the reviews I read (not all 400+), no one has mentioned "The Day of the Triffids" as a possible source of inspiration for this film (not the movie, the book). After all, it's both British and post-apocalyptic, and addresses (in more detail - after all, it's a book) many of the same social questions that this movie touches on.
OK, so there are directly-correlating scenes between this and Dawn of the Dead (shopping), Day of the Dead (intra-group strife, and captured zombies), and a variety of other movies. It's still really well done and has the oddly-scary "grainy-o-vision" appearance of movies like "Make them Die Slowly/Cannibal Ferox" which was made in the 70s and looked like a honest-to-goodness snuff film. (I actually went to the theatre staff and asked if there was a problem with the focus...)
Don't watch this looking for a slick zombie-fest like Resident Evil. I loved RE, but it was action-based, and this movie isn't - it's very much rooted in character, drama, and despair.
What's not scary about being one of the last people left alive in a world inhabited by infected creatures who only come out at night and want to kill anything that moves?